THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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8tattoa A. Lincoln, Nebraska,
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presence of these problems, connect
them with the facts and wisdom he
rains in the university, and leave tha
institution prepared to participate in
the intelligent solution of them.
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THE AFTERMATH.
Now that another riotous "rush
week" is over, pledges and active
members, surveying the matter more
calmly, are probably wondering
whether they used good judgment in
their decisions.
Here and there, undoubtedly, is a
pledge who turns out to be totally
onfitted for the fraternity he has
joined and who is extremely un
happy as the result And again,
fraternities are dissatisfied with
some "dark horse" who was pledged
while the glamour of rush week sur
rounded him.
The logical thing to do in either
case would be to break the pledge,
but both pledges and activities hesi
tate to do this. The fraternity mem
bers feel that they have ruined the
freshman's chauce to pledge another
fraternity and that they owe it to
him to keep him. The freshman
likewise refrains from breaking
away, for though he may realize
now that he should have pledged an
other fraternity, he is uncertain
whether the other fraternity will
take him now.
Such is the result of hurried and
hysterical rushing, both by men and
women. In the excitement of rush
week many things are overlooked
and many doubtful things done.
There are many freshmen, who,
m the course of a semester, would
show qualities that would make them
excellent fraternity members, but
who are forgotten in the three or
four days of actual rushing. They
are unnoticed, and once passed by
they have little chance to "make1
a fraternity later.
A man may have a congenial dis
position, be an excellent student and
nix well with his fellows, but he
may come from some town where
there are no fraternity members to
"rush" him.
But another man of much less
worth may become the center of
rushing actvities fr half a dozen
fraternities.
These are the faults of first sem
ester pledging. There are advan
tages in it, it is true, but some delay
in order that the taking in of new
members may be on a calmer and
saner basis, would seem advisable.
INTELLIGENT DISCUSSION.
An instrument provocative of
thinking and a medium for spirited
discussion are offered through the
World Forum to students who are
interested in current questions and
workl problems. A meeting held
each week is conducted so that there
is a speaker on a question of interest
followed by open forum discussion
on the subject.
Aa students, we are too often in
clined to neglect some of these issues
which face the American democracy
today. Engaged in the pursuit of
facta, we are prone to forget that
the world is not yet effectively or
ganized for peace and war preven
tion. The fact of a huge human
waste in industry and educaton is
overlooked. Too often we fail to con
sider the meaning of our religion and
its significance among the religions
of the world.
Whether we are students of law,
education, business, medicine, or
what not, these issues and problems
will confront us as citizens of a
democratic nation. It rests upon
students as something of a duty to
not allow the oppc.-tunities offered
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The Daily Nebraskan assumes
no responsibility for the senti
ments expressed by correspon
dents, and reserves the right to
exclude any communication
whose'publication may for any.
reason seem undesirable. Ex
cept by special arrangement,
communications cannot be pub
lished anonymously.
To the Editor:
This little missive might be termed
"The Rise of the Rent-a-Ford, or
Why Girls Refuse to Walk." It is the
tragedy of the boy who didn't bring
an automobile.
Educators may search in vain for
the predominating factor in college
life, but the freshman who has had
two or three date can name It with
unerring accuracy. This is the Rent-
a ford era.
Some two or three years ago co
eds were known to have walked a
few blocks to a show or a dance
Old grads who return tell these leg
ends of the good old days. But alas!
Times ain't what they used to was.
Nebraska girls, I believe, have
grown more beautiful with passing
years. But, unfortunately they have
been stricken with a strange malady.
The chief symptom of this is that
they are unable to walk more than a
few steps to an automobile after
6 p. m.
Though robust during the day,
and able to walk many blocks to and
from school, this fatal weakness at
tacks them at sundown. If the dis
ease is progressive, and the symp
toms becomes more pronounced,
they will become aloof idols, to be
gazed at from afar, and escorted on
dates only by the scions of the rich,
who recklessly rent Fords, secure in
the belief that father's millions can
stand the strain, for a while at least.
To be more serious, the cost of
dating is almost prohibitive for
many students. The cost of a show
or dance is great enough, but to rent
a car to transport some husky damsel
sets him back from $1.50 to $5.
That is too much.
The A. S, W., formerly the W. S.
G. A., has every conceivable kind
of a rule to protect the girls. Why,
Oh why, doesn't it enact one to pro
ject the men.'
The rule migt be that Rent-a
Fords could be used only for formal
parties or to go places that cannot
conventiently be reached by street
car or on foot.
The rumblings of revolt are al-
I 1 1 ml . . m
reaay neara. ine xormation oi a
walking soviet is now almost openly
discussed. But if the girls will lis
ten to reason and tako action before
the flood breaks, the revolution may
be averted.
M. Q.
Coography 61 and 71.
All sections In laboratory work in
Geography 61 and 71 will meet in
regular sessions this week in Bessey
Hall, rooms 2 and 20. Students in
Geography 71 are requested to con
suit the bulletin board along sidewalk
east end of Nebraska Hall for their
assignments as to time and place.
N. A. Bengtson,
Delta Omic "on.
Delta Omicron monthly business
meeting, to be held at Ellen Smith
Hall in the Pan Hellenic room at 7
o'clock Thursday.
181... Newspaper Editing.
Textbook, Bastian's "Editing the
Day's News" (The Macmillan Co.).
Each member is expected to own a
copy (on sale at the Regents' Book
store). J. E. Lawrence.
Sophomore Sport Managers.
Thirty sophomore candiates for
managers of all sports are wanted at
once. Report to Herbert Gish in the
athletic office.
Notice.
Ag College mixer at Home Eco
nomics building Friday, October 2,
Sponsored by the Ag Club.
Women's Athletie Association.
All women having participated in
dancl.ig, baseball, hiking, tennis, vol
ley ball, track and rifling, during the
season 1924-'25 meet Thursday at 12
o'clock in Gymnasium 101.
Freshman Commission.
Freshman Commission meeting
will be held Wednesday afternoon at
five o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall.
Sigma Tau.
Sigma Tau meeting Thursday ev
ening at 7:30 in M. E. 204.
Silver Serpents.
Important meeting of Silver Ser
pents at 7:15 in Ellen Smith Hall
Election of Officers.
Chess-Nuts
Meeting of all students interested
in 'chess at 7:30 Saturday evening
to consider advisability of reviving
the Chess-Nuts.
Pershing Rifles.
Pershing Rifles meeting at the Pi
Kappa Phi house, 1820 B street,
Wednesday evening.
Mystic P!sh.
Mystic Fish meeting Wednesday
evening at 7:15 in Ellen Smith Hall.
English 1 and 2.
All themes of last year's students
in English 1, 2 and 22 will be de
stroyed if not called for by October
15.
Christian Science.
Christian Science Society will
meet Thursday at 7:30 in Faculty
Hall, Temple.
Theta Sigma Phi.
Meeting of the Theta Sigma Phi
Thursday at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith
Hall.
Iota Sigma Pi. ,
Meeting of Iota Sigma Pi in Chem
istry Hall, Wednesday at 7:15.
Silver Serpent.
Meeting of Silver Serpent Thurs
day at 7 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall.
Election of officers.
The College Press
DOLLARS FOR TOUCHDOWNS.
Through the medium of a program
of pitiless publicity inaugurated by
the New York World and other
prominent newspaper organizations,
a fierce spotlight has played during
the past several weeks on the inside
workings of college athletics. Gradu
ate managers and university presi
dents have concurred in recognizing
the possibilities of modern college
sports and their administration as
dangerous to an ideal academic life.
That college athletics have fre
quently been run on planes that are
not strictly above-board is true. The
revelations of the recent newspaper
features are not ordinary printed
guff; the sensations of the stories of
"How Campus Sports Are Run" have
in general had much more founda
tion than the gory tales of bootleg
queens, of the doings in oriental
harems, and of life in Greenwich
Village.
It is not easy for administrators of
universities and university sports to
overlook this new idea in college
sports organization, viz., that an ath
lete demands something in return for
everything he gives. Obviously ath
letic teams preferably winning ath
letic teams are an essential means
of advertising the modern American
miversity.. Examples are too num
erous: Notre Dame, Penn State, Illi
nois, Georgetown, and so on through
the list of colleges and universities in
these United States.
Colleges must be advertised, and
therefore consideration has been giv-
en the poor, education-seeking pre
naratory and high school athletes
who have great campus futures ahead
of them. One college has done it
more than another; the custom has
become established and now faces
modern education as a dark, dark
evil. Without doubt there are those
super-stars who are on the payrolls
of universities with as much coming
to them week in and week out as
many of the members of the faculty
itself.
Unfortunately the custom has be
come well advertised. There is not
self-confident matriculating athlete
who does not feel that he is entitled
to something for participating in
sports competition for his chosen
alma mater. This, theoretically and
practically, is foolish; a college ath
lete is not a professional; he is an
amateur, and he can never fight with
that dogged, red-blooded energy if he
knows he is getting paid for what he
does.
College athletic directors find this
scholarship-seeking a mammoth prob
lem. Wealthy colleges offer more
than more modestly endowed institu
tions. It is a race to get the man.
Furthermore, there is the fact that
fraternities are often solicited to sup
port a pledge-athlete; this, too, is
un-ethical and lowers the morale of
the fraternity. Nevertheless, it has
been done, and will continue to be
done unless athletes go through col
lege without financial assistance.
Looking at it from a cold view
point, it seems unfair to the man Vho
is a better football player or a bet
ter crew man or a better runner than
his neighbor merits free tuition, free
food, free academic livlihood while
his neighbor pays for it all. Further
more, the neighbor may be a star de
bater, a scintilating actor, a brilliant
musician; yet these attributes will
not get him as much as a block letter.
, .
iooKing at it all irom a warmer
and closer viewpoint, there is after
all the fact that college athletics are
picturesque, that college athletics are
necessary part of every campus,
nd, furthermore, that winning teams
are essential to the successful col
lege. So it is a Problem, hard to
olve and, undoubtedly, capable of
existing for a long time to come. II M M II f Ts.
In some Utopian future there may I I I i Li i-l Li I jJj
be -a time whne every college, every
university, will sign an agreement
forbidding all scholarships and finan
cial aid to athletes. There might,
too, bo a time when that agreement
might be enforced. At present, how
ever, there is every inclination to
think that athletic scholarships will
be given as long as college men are
college men and college women are
college women and college men and
women are college rooters. Syra
cuse Daily Orange.
Ten Years Ago
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The second edition of the Awgwan
came out The issue was named the
"Home Sweet Home" number, appro
priate for those getting acustomedl
to strange faces and surroundings.
A spider which eats small birds I
was found in a bunch of bananas at I
a grocery store in Lincoln.
On The Air
broadcasting!
University studio
over KFA3 (340.8).
Wednesday, Sept. 30.
9:30 to 9:55 a. m. Weather report
by Prof. T. A. Blair, director of the
United States Weather Bureau. Road
report.
10:30 to 11:30 a. m. Talk on
Home Economics by Miss Margaret
S. Fedde.
1:15 to 1:30 p. m. At the High
School convocation: Address by
Superintendent M. C. Lefler of the
Lincoln City Schools. A group of
songs by Homer Compton, tenor, of
the University School of Music.
3:00 to 3:30 p. m. Address for
the Department of Sociology by Miss
Anna M. Cameron, Extension instruc
tor in Social Work, on "The Place of
Volunteer Social Work." "Oppor
tunities in Poultry Raising," by E. F.
Mussehl of the Department of Poul
try husbandry. "Seed Corn Selec
tion," by T. H. Godding, Department
of Agronomy.
Notices
Commercial Club.
Important business meeting of the
Girl's Commercial Club on Wednes
day at 5 o'clock in Social Science
101.
Lutheran.
The Lutheran Bible League will
meet for Bible study at 7 o'clock,
Wednesday in Faculty HalL
Kappa Phi.
Kappa Phi members and pledges
will hold, a rally, Thursday from 7 to
8 at Wesley Foundation Parsonage,
1417 R.
A Reality
The College Girl Footwear
Awaiting Your Approval
The
"Charleston"
A chic patent leather Pump with
spike heel.
$8.50
Style cleverness is surely suggested in
every line of the Charleston you are
certain to admire it and to desire it.
First Floor
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IT'S TOPCOAT TIME;
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A LOT OF NEW COLLEGE TOPCOATS HAVE
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YOU'VE SEEN IN QUITE A WHILE.
AMONG THEM THE NEW BLUE CHEVIOT WILL
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Are you a short woman? Does your height
come between 4 feet 11 inches and 5 feet
3 inches
If so, you are eligible to enter this contest
for a $98.50 "Little Lady" Coat.
Simply step into our Little Women's Coat
Section and register your name and height.
You will be given an identifying number,
the duplicate of which will be placed in a
sealed box. On a given date a number
will be drawn from the box in the presence
of a committee and the person holding the
duplicate will be entitled to her choice of
our $98.50 "Little Lady" Coats., free., of
charge.
This Offer Means
Just What It Says
The manufacturers of "Little Lady" Coats
are desirous of finding out through us how
many women in this city are interested in
these garments and we, too, are anxious
to find out, and are taking this way of do
ing so. "Little) I.ady" Coats are a new de
velopment in apparel designing and we
would like to get them before as many
short women as possible.
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The Fraternity Cleaners
have a new address;
227 South 13th.
but the address is all that IS
changed! You'll still get the
same high quality of work
from them, and the same
prompt Bervice. Your last
year's wardrobe can change
color like a chameleon with
their assistance. - The faded
garments of 1924 will step in
to the social whirl of 1925 with
in air of assurance after a vis
it to the dyepots of the Fratern
ity Cleaners 1 Let them also
clean and press your very
choicest clothes. You may be
sure they will come back
promptly and spotlessly, and
without any Ford-like aroma 1
That Marcel you Ad
mired was done at
the Curlique!
remember that beautifully
waved, bobbed head that was
drawing so much attention in
your 8 o'clock the other morn
ing? It was put in by the
Curlique Beauty Shop at 1417
O. Waves like these help fill
dance programs! and they're
only 75c another reason why
this attractive little shop is so
popular with Nebraska girls.
Haircuts are but 35c and eye
brow arches or manicures are
50c. So just call B5150 when
a very special date demands
that you look extra beautiful,
and your pocketbook demands
that you be extra-economical!
Richly Furred Winter
Coats cost but $590
at Colton's
here are the coats for co-eds
who want to look as though c-U
has been discovered on the old
home farm, and yet must
achieve this air of opulence on
a limited clothes allowance.
Coats fashionably flared, made
of soft new fabrics in new-season
colors; all collared, and of
ten cuffed and banded in squir
rel, Vicuna, Tuscona, Fox,
Wolf or Beaver. It's hard to
believe that such smart coats
cost but. $59.50, but that of
course is due to the tremendous
buying power of the chain of
stores to which Colton's belong.
OrviUe Andrews sings
at Herpolsheimer's
Tea Room this week.
naturally Ls WOULD sing at
the tea room that is most popu
lar among students! Hear him
during the luncheon or dinner
hours. You'll enjoy him. you'll
enjoy the Fraternity orchestra,
but more than all, you'll enjoy
the food and the prices! Here
at last is a tea room that meets
the rather contradictory de
mands of the ever-hungry and
"always broke" Nebraska tu-
dent 35c and 50c luncheons
are served each day, a special
50c fried chicken lunrhenn each
Saturday, hot waffles, and a
splendid a la carte service from
7 a. m. to 8 d. m.
A World of Shoe Style
for $3.98 at Kinney's
good looking, low-heeled ox
fordsthe kind Nebraska's
best dressed feminine feet are
wearing on campus at this
small price. Can you believe
it? Or perhaDs you've been
wanting a smart patent leather
pump, lunney's are ready lor
you with an almost bewildering
assortment. strip pumps,
models adorned with tailored
and ,traP ty!es many
at 13.98, some $4.93. Another
thing, you'll soon be wanting
to put a pair of Kinney's bed
room slippers between you and
cold floor. Attractive feit
ones are 89c, and those of
quilted satin are $1. .
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